Hyperstition is a positive feedback circuit

FOUND: http://merliquify.com/blog/articles/hyperstition-an-introduction/#.VDoe6dTF-ik Hyperstition is a positive feedback circuit including culture as a component. It can be defined as the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies. Superstitions are merely false beliefs, but hyperstitions – by their very existence as ideas – function causally to bring about their own reality. Capitalist economics is extremely sensitive to hyperstition, where confidence…

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Human Space Travel

The means are at hand to conquer inner space but they are not being used. Despite impressive technical advances the planet is still in the stone age psychologically. Who would profit from turning the clock all the way back to the stone age and keeping man out of space? A parasitic entity that lives in…

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Taboo, Transgression, and Death

We are not always able to remain true to our taboos all of the time. We allow a limited amount of transgression during certain situations to compensate for the building urge to return to the violence we came from, to reunite with the continuity of life that we seem to only experience during brief moments…

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Asocial Contract : Antinomian Transgression in Buddhism

Found : Asocial Contract : Antinomian Transgression in Buddhism How can a Buddhist monk who drinks alcohol, fornicates with women, eat meat, kill, or acts generally irreverently still be considered a Buddhist monk? Recent scandals of Buddhist masters sleeping with their disciples or committing white collar crimes have made headlines across the world, but this…

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UFOS IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION

Found : UFOS IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION The UFO, whatever it may be, appears to have the ability to alter consciousness, perception, and to some degree, maybe even space and time itself. Like Dick's VALIS, it appears to be an "information singularity," which seems to draw bits and pieces of reality around it into…

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Hint For Heretics / The Real War…

Found : Hint For Heretics / The Real War… As long as you believe that people are born either controllers or spies for love, elect or damned, good or bad, you deny humanity’s ability to understand and cure its own sickness. To see this, try the following thought-experiment: suppose that somewhere in the universe there…

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